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Impaired mitochondrial energy supply coupled to increased H2O2 emission under energy/redox stress leads to myocardial dysfunction during Type I diabetes

Clinical science (London, England : 1979), 2015

In Type I diabetic (T1DM) patients, both peaks of hyperglycaemia and increased sympathetic tone probably contribute to impair systolic and diastolic function. However, how these stressors eventually alter cardiac function during T1DM is not fully understood. In the present study, we hypothesized that impaired mitochondrial energy supply and excess reactive oxygen species (ROS) emission is centrally involved in T1DM cardiac dysfunction due to metabolic/redox stress and aimed to determine the mitochondrial sites implicated in these alterations. To this end, we used isolated myocytes and mitochondria from Sham and streptozotocin (STZ)-induced T1DM guinea pigs (GPs), untreated or treated with insulin. Relative to controls, T1DM myocytes exhibited higher oxidative stress when challenged with high glucose (HG) combined with β-adrenergic stimulation [via isoprenaline (isoproterenol) (ISO)], leading to contraction/relaxation deficits. T1DM mitochondria had decreased respiration with complex...

Hyperglycemia does not alter state 3 respiration in cardiac mitochondria from type-I diabetic rats

Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry, 2000

Cardiovascular complications are the primary cause of death for diabetic patients. Clinically, the development of dysfunctional cardiomyopathy is one of the main complications of diabetes. Experimental evidence indicates that the mitochondrion is one of the main sites implicated in the development of cardiac dysfunction. Yet, the precise cause and mechanisms involved in the process are largely debated. We report here that heart mitochondria from streptozotocin-induced diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats present a gradual reduction in state 3 oxygen consumption that reaches 35% by the fourth week following diabetes onset. Rats presenting a level of hyperglycemia similar to diabetic animals, but not showing the marked weight loss or appearance of urinary ketones typical of the later group present no decline in state 3 mitochondrial oxygen consumption, the values being indistinguishable from those of mitochondria from control animals. Mitochondria from hyperglycemic non-ketotic rats, however, show a 15-20% increase in state 4 respiration, but only when glutamate is used as energetic substrate. Mitochondria from diabetic rats, instead, show a 40-50% increase in state 4 respiration with glutamate and 20-25% with succinate as energetic substrate. Interestingly, hyperglycemic non-ketotic animals present a level of serum insulin intermediate between those of controls and diabetic animals. These functional modifications are unrelated to the time elapsed since the onset of diabetes, as they are observed at 2, 4, 6 as well as 8 and 12 weeks after diabetes onset. Taken together, these data argue against hyperglycemia per se being a direct cause of the decline in state 3 oxygen consumption observed in cardiac mitochondria of type-I diabetic rats. Rather, they point to insulin level and subsequent metabolic alterations as a possible cause for the insurgence of mitochondrial dysfunction. (Mol Cell Biochem 267: [31][32][33][34][35][36][37] 2004)

Changes in mitochondrial morphology and organisation can enhance energy supply from mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation in diabetic cardiomyopathy

American journal of physiology. Cell physiology, 2016

Diabetic cardiomyopathy is accompanied by metabolic and ultrastructural alterations, but the impact of the structural changes on metabolism itself is yet to be determined. Morphometric analysis of mitochondrial shape and spatial organisation within transverse sections of cardiomyocytes from control and streptozotocin induced type I diabetic Sprague-Dawley rats revealed that mitochondria are 20% smaller in size while their spatial density increases by 53% in diabetic cells relative to control myocytes. Diabetic cells formed larger clusters of mitochondria (60% more mitochondria per cluster) and the effective surface to volume ratio of these clusters increased by 22.5%. Using a biophysical computational model we found that this increase can have a moderate compensatory effect by increasing the availability of ATP in the cytosol when ATP synthesis within the mitochondrial matrix is compromised.

Mitochondrial Function in Diabetes: Novel Methodology and New Insight

Diabetes, 2013

Interpreting mitochondrial function as affected by comparative physiologic conditions is confounding because individual functional parameters are interdependent. Here, we studied muscle mitochondrial function in insulin-deficient diabetes using a novel, highly sensitive, and specific method to quantify ATP production simultaneously with reactive oxygen species (ROS) at clamped levels of inner mitochondrial membrane potential (DC), enabling more detailed study. We used a 2-deoxyglucose (2DOG) energy clamp to set DC at fixed levels and to quantify ATP production as 2DOG conversion to 2DOG-phosphate measured by onedimensional 1 H and two-dimensional 1 H/ 13 C heteronuclear single quantum coherence nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. These techniques proved far more sensitive than conventional 31 P nuclear magnetic resonance and allowed high-throughput study of small mitochondrial isolates. Over conditions ranging from state 4 to state 3 respiration, ATP production was lower and ROS per unit of ATP generated was greater in mitochondria isolated from diabetic muscle. Moreover, ROS began to increase at a lower threshold for inner membrane potential in diabetic mitochondria. Further, ATP production in diabetic mitochondria is limited not only by respiration but also by limited capacity to use DC for ATP synthesis. In summary, we describe novel methodology for measuring ATP and provide new mechanistic insight into the dysregulation of ATP production and ROS in mitochondria of insulin-deficient rodents.

Maintaining Myocardial Glucose Utilization in Diabetic Cardiomyopathy Accelerates Mitochondrial Dysfunction

Diabetes, 2020

Cardiac glucose uptake and oxidation are reduced in diabetes despite hyperglycemia. Mitochondrial dysfunction contributes to heart failure in diabetes. It is unclear whether these changes are adaptive or maladaptive. To directly evaluate the relationship between glucose delivery and mitochondrial dysfunction in diabetic cardiomyopathy, we generated transgenic mice with inducible cardiomyocyte-specific expression of the GLUT4. We examined mice rendered hyperglycemic following low-dose streptozotocin prior to increasing cardiomyocyte glucose uptake by transgene induction. Enhanced myocardial glucose in nondiabetic mice decreased mitochondrial ATP generation and was associated with echocardiographic evidence of diastolic dysfunction. Increasing myocardial glucose delivery after short-term diabetes onset exacerbated mitochondrial oxidative dysfunction. Transcriptomic analysis revealed that the largest changes, driven by glucose and diabetes, were in genes involved in mitochondrial funct...

Diabetes impairs heart mitochondrial function without changes in resting cardiac performance

The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 2016

Diabetes is a chronic disease associated to a cardiac contractile dysfunction that is not attributable to underlying coronary artery disease or hypertension, and could be consequence of a progressive deterioration of mitochondrial function. We hypothesized that impaired mitochondrial function precedes Diabetic Cardiomyopathy. Thus, the aim of this work was to study the cardiac performance and heart mitochondrial function of diabetic rats, using an experimental model of type I Diabetes. Rats were sacrificed after 28 days of Streptozotocin injection (STZ, 60 mg kg −1 , ip.). Heart O 2 consumption was declined, mainly due to the impairment of mitochondrial O 2 uptake. The mitochondrial dysfunction observed in diabetic animals included the reduction of state 3 respiration (22%), the decline of ADP/O ratio (∼15%) and the decrease of the respiratory complexes activities (22-26%). An enhancement in mitochondrial H 2 O 2 (127%) and NO (23%) production rates and in tyrosine nitration (58%) were observed in heart of diabetic rats, with a decrease in Mn-SOD activity (∼50%). Moreover, a decrease in contractile response (38%), inotropic (37%) and lusitropic (58%) reserves were observed in diabetic rats only after a ␤-adrenergic stimulus. Therefore, in conditions of sustained hyperglycemia, heart mitochondrial O 2 consumption and oxidative phosphorylation efficiency are decreased, and H 2 O 2 and NO productions are increased, leading to a cardiac compromise against a work overload. This mitochondrial impairment was detected in the absence of heart hypertrophy and of resting cardiac performance changes, suggesting that mitochondrial dysfunction could precede the onset of diabetic cardiac failure, being H 2 O 2 , NO and ATP the molecules probably involved in mitochondrion-cytosol signalling.

Quantitative Protein Profiling in Heart Mitochondria from Diabetic Rats

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 2003

Quantitative protein profiling based on in vitro stable isotope labeling, two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and mass spectrometry is an accurate and reliable approach to measure simultaneously the relative abundance of many individual proteins within two different samples. In the present study, it was used to define a set of alterations caused by diabetes in heart mitochondria from streptozotocin-treated rats. We demonstrated that the expression of proteins from the myocardial tricarboxylic acid cycle was not altered in diabetes. However, up-regulation of the fatty acid ␤-oxidation favored fatty acids over glucose as a source of acetyl CoA for the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Protein levels for several proteins involved in electron transport were modestly decreased. Whether this may depress overall ATP production remains to be established, since the protein level of ATP synthase seems to be unchanged. Other changes include down-regulation of protein levels for creatine kinase, voltage-dependent anion channel 1 (VDAC-1), HSP60, and Grp75. The mitochondria-associated level of albumin was decreased, while the level of catalase was substantially increased. All of the changes were evident as early as 1 week after streptozotocin administration. Taken together, these data point to a rapid and highly coordinated regulation of mitochondrial protein expression that occurs during the heart adaptation to diabetes.